Letters from Our Readers

Readers of The Good News share their thoughts.

Marriage and Family: The Missing Dimension

I do not actually know what prompted me to subscribe to The Good News. And I couldn't believe it when the issues started to arrive at my door. Yet I initially neglected them. I am a young man of 27 married to a young lady of 23 with a 20-month-old daughter. So many matrimonial problems started knocking at our door. With that stress, I one day decided to browse through one of your booklets, Marriage and Family: The Missing Dimension.

Words cannot describe how helpful that booklet has been. It saved my marriage. It is absolutely and brilliantly packed with so much information and teaching that could save any broken home if read with sufficient spiritual attention and concentration. As we look forward to our second child, I already believe the recent Good News issue on "How Can You Help Your Child Succeed?" will be as interesting.

—Reader in England

I wanted to let you know that I enjoyed your magazine. This is the first time I had read it, and as a mom I found the articles very informative. I have just started going to church and along with regular attendance and reading your magazine, I feel I will become closer to God. Both are helping me in my prayer time and in dealing with the challenges of being a parent in these troubled times.

—J.S., Renshaw, Pennsylvania

Thank you for your magazines you have been sending me over the years. As a new father, I have benefited from your articles on the role of the father, which have been eye-openers. I downloaded your booklet on family matters [Marriage and Family: The Missing Dimension] and it is helping me a lot.

—J.S., Accra, Ghana

I subscribe to The Good News via the Internet. I can't tell you how important this magazine is to my life and family. So I now want it in hard copy so I can read it with my family. I would especially like to have all the magazines, articles and booklets regarding youth, marriage and family.

—S.M., Eritrea

"The European Union: Blessing or Modern Tower of Babel?"

I just finished reading the article "The European Union: Blessing or Modern Tower of Babel?" and I must say I enjoyed it very much. As far as the European Union goes—I cannot help but think that it will work for a period of time. But the many countries that have joined themselves together for economic stability to compete with the West [mainly the United States and Canada] will eventually fragment along diverse cultural lines and will desire to return to the status quo that existed in the 19th and 20th centuries.

—R.C., Palmersville, Tennessee

If it weren't for what the Bible actually says will happen in Central Europe, we would tend to agree with you. And even so this union will fragment after it has achieved its biblical role. As prophesied, it will be like "iron mixed with clay" (Daniel 2:40-44). To understand more, request or download our free booklet Are We Living in the Time of the End?

Readers from Asia and the Middle East

I have read many issues of The Good News and several of your booklets. Your magazine is eye-opening and gives me a good and thoughtful knowledge about Christianity. And now I am attending weekly Sabbath services in Sri Lanka.

—A.P., Sri Lanka

Thank you for responding and sending me these two booklets. I read them both already. They are both wonderful and I am learning a lot from them. May God bless and expand your ministry more and more—that through the booklets you are sending people they will come to know the truth of God.

—J.T.B., Hong Kong

Thank you so much for The Good News. I'm very grateful, as it is an eye-opener for me to understand the Bible in a deeper sense, especially with your booklet The Book of Revelation Unveiled.

—M.P., Singapore

I would like to thank everybody at the United Church of God for your Web site and the booklets. I have learned a great deal and can't help wanting to read and learn more. I am so acutely aware of all of our wrongdoings—it's just so sad. I just hope and pray that God will have mercy on all of us.

—Reader, Auckland, New Zealand

I just discovered your Web site and I am keenly interested in knowing about the United Church of God. I will access this site, and I'll look forward to reading what's on it.

—Reader, George Town, Tasmania

Our free booklet This Is the United Church of God may be of help.

Thank you for sending The Good News. I am impressed by the articles in it. It is a fruitful magazine as it gives the knowledge of social, personal, family and domestic matters, politics and other important issues.

—S.M., Nepal

I am trying to sign up for a free subscription to The Good News. I am in the U.S. Army and currently in Iraq. The Web site won't let me put in an APO AE address, so here are my details. I hope I can still receive it.

—S.S., Iraq

Please bear with my letter. I am conducting underground Bible studies with 17 people. If it is not a burden to The Good News, I am asking you to mail me any materials that could help in preparing my teachings. I managed to read one of your Web site publications and am eager to visit it, but due to lack of access to the Internet from our work site, we have no way to visit it.

—Reader, Saudi Arabia

Is the Sabbath on Saturday or Sunday?

I have read your magazine for a while and it is great. But a huge question plays on my mind. Is the Sabbath on Saturday or Sunday? Are we breaking the commandment if we do not celebrate the Sabbath on the right day in worshipping the Lord?

—K.C.S., New South Wales, Australia

The answers are readily available in our free booklets Sunset to Sunset: God's Sabbath Rest and The Ten Commandments. The true biblical Sabbath is from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset. See Genesis 2:2-3.

Cancel my subscription

I thought your ideas seemed to be more and more far out with each issue, but when I realized that you do not believe in the holy Trinity, that was the final straw. Your teachings are clearly in contrast to what the Bible says, and I no longer wish to receive your magazine.

—R.P., Kamay, Texas

Rather than "God in three Persons," we believe the biblical revelation of the Father and Son as two divine beings and the Holy Spirit as God's divine power and essence. The Oxford Companion to the Bible honestly states: "Because the Trinity is such an important part of later Christian doctrine, it is striking that the term does not appear in the New Testament. Likewise, the developed concept of three coequal partners in the Godhead cannot be clearly detected within the confines of the [New Testament] Canon" (1993, p. 782). Our free booklet Who Is God? contains two chapters that address and answer all the major arguments attached to this unbiblical doctrine.

Q&A on baptism

I really appreciated the way you answered J.F. in the Q&A regarding baptism [March/April issue]. You taught me so much through your succinct answer. Not only were you direct, but very gentle in showing the Scriptures of God's loving plan for mankind.

—K.B., Liberty, South Carolina

I really love your message. Finally a Church that speaks the truth.

—J.M., Internet

All contributions are gratefully appreciated. Readers who would like to voluntarily contribute to spreading the gospel may do so through checks made out to the United Church of God. Our U.S. mailing address is P.O. Box 541027, Cincinnati, Ohio 45254-1027. Addresses of our offices in other countries are listed on the Contact Webpage.